Define: "Cloud Repatriation" in Business
Catastrophic fiscal burn
"Demand hazard pay. Rebuilding the on-premOn-PremThat dusty server rack in the closet that nobody has the password to anymore. racks they made you destroy is going to take ten times longer than they think."
The strategic process of migrating workloads from a public cloud environment back to an on-premises infrastructure.
What does "Cloud Repatriation" actually mean?
"The agonizing admission that the C-suiteThe C-SuiteThe people who approve a $5M cloud migration but deny your request for a $50 keyboard.'s brilliant cloud strategy just bankrupted the IT department and we now have to beg for our physical servers back."
"We are initiating a cloud repatriation project to better align our infrastructure costs with long-term financial goals."
"Cloud repatriation is going to ruin my summer because I have to rebuild the entire datacenter we just threw away last year."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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